Julien Cosmao

Julien Marie Cosmao-Kerjulien (27 November 1761-17 February 1825) was a Counter Admiral of the French Navy during the American Revolution, French Revolutionary Wars, and Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Cosmao was born in Chateaulin, France in 1761 and joined the French Navy in 1776. He fought against British privateers of Guyana from 1779 to 1781, and during the French Revolutionary Wars he took part in the 1793 invasion of Sardinia. During the later years of the wars, he fought against Great Britain as the commander of the French squadron in the Caribbean, capturing Diamond Rock in 1797. In the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar during the Napoleonic Wars, he distinguished himself as a hero by rescuing trapped French as well as Spanish ships from British encirclement, loyal to both his country and their allies.

During the Peninsular War Cosmao commanded the Mediterranean fleet, and Cosmao fought against the British in the Mediterranean. In 1814, after the fall of France to the Allied forces, Cosmao was unemployed, but in 1815 he backed Napoleon's return to power. After Napoleon's fall that year he went a year without a pension, but later retired and died in Brest in 1825.